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Dirty truths of modernism
Sometimes truth comes out of the mouths of babes. Other times it comes out of the mouths of potty. That does not make it any less true, and since truth on any topic is a rare commodity, Paul Joseph Watson’s … Continue reading
Will the real Seagram Building please stand up?
On Sunday I posted “Tom Wolfe and Henry Reed,” and to my mortification was informed by a reader that the Seagram Building was not the building in the photo I used to illustrate the piece. I plead guilty. Who could … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged Chicago, Chicago Federal Center, Mies van der Rohe, New York, Seagram Building
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Tom Wolfe and Henry Reed
I have been finishing up my book Lost Providence, girding my loins on the adrenaline rush of Tom Wolfe’s 1981 bestseller From Bauhaus to Our House. How to select a great passage to quote? Well, one way is to quote … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged From Bauhaus to Our House, Henry Hope Reed, ICAA, LEED, Mies van der Rohe, modernism, Tom Wolfe
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Less is more … or a bore?
Happy belated birthday (it was June 24) to Robert Venturi, avatar of the postmodern movement in architecture and the self-appointed rebutter-in-chief to arch-modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his infamous dictum. In the battle of slogans, “Less is more” … Continue reading
Hitler’s revenge on America
The journal Places has published, as the inaugural installment in its Future Archive series of forgotten writing of the past century, a 1968 essay for Art in America by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy called “Hitler’s Revenge.” The essay is introduced by Despina … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Bauhaus, Despina Stratigakos, Germany, Hitler, Jane Jacobs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Places Journal, Sibyl Moholy-Navy, University of Buffalo, Walter Gropius
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Shubow’s fine Bulfinch talk
Justin Shubow’s recent talk in Boston, the first annual Bulfinch Awards Lecture, was delivered in the afternoon before that evening’s gala, thrown by the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art to celebrate the eight Bulfinch … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Preservation, Video
Tagged Boston MA, Bulfinch Awards, Dwight Eisenhower, First Bulfinch Lecture, Frank Gehry, George Washington, ICAA New England Chapter, Justin Shubow, Mies van der Rohe, National Civic Art Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Style vs. form balderdash
Justin Shubow, the provocative head of the National Civic Art Society, has posted a segment from a 1996 book review by the late Paul Malo of Roger Scruton’s The Classical Vernacular: Architecture in a Time of Nihilism, which I recently … Continue reading
The satisfactions of Satie
Erik Satie is a French composer of whom I know little, but am very familiar with one of his pieces, the first of his three “Gnossiennes,” which I suspect most readers will recognize as well. It is the first video … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Books and Culture, Video
Tagged Classical Music, Erik Satie, Frank Gehry, Kaz, Le Corbusier, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Glass, Readnomore
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Dump on Seagram Building
Martin Pedersen, the critic and former Metropolis editor who co-wrote a blistering attack on modernism in the New York Times last December, has loosed an excellent fusillade against the Seagram Building, completed in 1958. Writing in the Fast Company blog, … Continue reading
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Tagged Martin Pedersen, Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
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